Blood parameters, metabolites and nucleotide levels in muscle.

Blood glucose is expressed as (mg/dl). Insulin is expressed as (mU/l). For these parameters control n = 17 (obtained from unstimulated animals) and stimulated groups n = 3–5. Glucose-6P, ATP, ADP, IMP, NAD, total purines and total Creatine content are expressed as (micromol/g tissue). Adenosine and AMP are expressed as (nanomol/g tissue). Ratio AMP/ATP is expressed as (nanomol AMP/(micromol ATPhplc). ATP (enz) data was obtained using the enzymatic assay, while ATP (hplc) values were obtained using HPLC. Control group was composed with the pool of 5–10 contralateral non-stimulated muscle samples. n = 5 for the stimulated and rested groups. Data are means ± SE.*: p$: p+: p